Staff Correspondent:
Dhaka, Aug-19,
Bangladesh logged 159
more coronavirus-related deaths and 6,566 fresh infections in 24 hours till
Wednesday morning in a decreasing trend in both fatalities and cases even
though concern remained over the virulent Delta Variant of the virus.
The country has been
seeing fatalities below 200 for the last seven days, a slight improvement from
the July 25- August 13 period when daily deaths were recorded over 200.
The fresh numbers took
the country’s total fatalities to 24,874 while the cases to 1,447, 210
according to a handout issued by the Directorate General of Health Services
(DGHS)
The new cases were
detected after testing 37,226 samples which lowered the case positivity
rate to 17.64 % % , still much higher
that the WHO recommendation of bringing it below 5%.
Meanwhile, the case
fatality rate remained static at 1.72 %
.
Among the new deaths,
50 died in the Dhaka division 38 in Chattogram , 23 died in Sylhet 13 in
Rajshahi, 12 in Khulna, 10 in Barishal, eight in Rangpur, and five died in the
Mymensingh division.
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